72) The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
73) A Home At The End Of The World by Michael Cunningham
74) Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
75) The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck
76) Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
77) Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
78) Another Kind Of Cowboy by Susan Juby
79) The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
80) The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies
81) Ironside by Holly Black
82) Absolutely Positively Not by David LaRachelle
83) Geography Club by Brent Hartinger
84) Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block
85) Paper Towns by John Green
86) Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai
87) A Lion Among Men by Gregory Maguire
88) Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
89) Possession: A Romance by AS Byatt
90) Talk by Kathe Koja
91) Alt Ed by Catherine Atkins
92) Bloodtide by Melvin Burgess
93) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
94) The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
95) The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America by Jon Stewart
96) Beloved by Toni Morrison
97) Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
98) Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things by Gary Geddes
99) Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr
100) The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
101) A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
102) Love and Honor by Randall Wallace
103) Crow Stone by Jenni Mills
104) Sarah by Marek Halter
105) The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
106) Kin by Holly Black
107) The Way He Lived by Emily Wing Smith
108) Tips on Having a Gay (ex) Boyfriend by Carrie Jones
109) Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger
110) The Giver by Lois Lowry
111) The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
112) The Master by Colm Tóibín
113) Witch Baby by Francesca Lia Block
114) Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys by Francesca Lia Block
115) Missing Angel Juan by Francesca Lia Block
116) Baby Be-Bop by Francesca Lia Block
117) The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
118) Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce
119) An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
120) Absolute Brightness by James Lecesne
121) Looking For Alaska by John Green
122) Dramarama by E. Lockhart
123) Click by Various Authors
124) Wide Awake by David Levithan
125) The Disrebutable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
126) Order of the Poison Oak by Brent Hartinger
127) Lyra’s Oxford by Philip Pullman
128) Once Upon A Time In The North by Philip Pullman
129) On Beauty by Zadie Smith
130) Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
131) Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
132 + 133) The World of Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne
134) Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
135) Atonement by Ian McEwan
136) Empress of the World by Sara Ryan
137) The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler
138) The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
139) Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
140) Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
141) O Pioneers! by Willa Cather

71) It's Kind Of A Funny Story by Ned Vizzini

70) I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb

69) Hunted by PC and Kristen Cast
I was stuck at my sister's place with nothing else to read... why do I keep doing this to myself? *sigh*

68) Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres

67) The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

66) Valiant by Holly Black

65) Farthing by Jo Walton

Aprile wrote: "Congrats on over 50!"

Thanks!

62) The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

63) Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

64) Luna by Julie Anne Peters

Mary Todd wrote: "Did you love it? I did!"

Absolutely, I'm pretty sure that Margaret Atwood is incapable of writing a bad book. (But I may be biased as a Canadian feminist :D)

Congrats on over 50!

Did you love it? I did!

61) The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

(An English teacher's aside)Young ladies in Austin's time were looked down on for reading her 'fluff'. Dickens was serialized in the newspaper, and Harper Lee had one heck of a time getting her book published. Not that I think all of today's fluff will become classic, but I betcha some of it will!

Tristen Kiri wrote: "Tori wrote: "I really like your list.... You don't read a lot of fluff. This is a list I aspire to, so you have my total respect.
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Thanks! I really appreciate the comment :D. I just noticed tha..."

Regarding the Bell Jar, it was ok. I thought it was weird that everything started out normal and then it was almost as if she flipped a switch and the writing and story just changed suddenly. It was like it mirrored Plath's life.

60) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

56) Alice in Wonderland
57) Through the Looking Glass
58) The Hunting of the Snark
59) Phantasmagoria
Only read half of A Tangled Tale (I do enough homework XD)
Nonsense from Letters

55) Snow in August by Pete Hamill

54)Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

sorry I'm a little late!

Thanks! I loved Rebecca and I'm glad I found The Memory of Running ( I can't believe no one would publish it!)


52+53) The World of Christopher Robin: The Complete When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six by AA Milne
I decided to count it as two books because that's how it was originally published. :D

Congrats on reaching the half-century mark! You've got a great list of books. I loved Rebecca and The Memory of Running.

51)Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

50) The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty

47) The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

48)Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

49) Rx by Tracy Lynn

Lisa wrote: "Tristen Kiri wrote: "
30) Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Absolutely Delightful. (I know that is a ridiculously quaint way to describe a book but this book ..."

I haven't seen the movie yet but I'll have to check it out now. :) Thanks!

Tori wrote: "I really like your list.... You don't read a lot of fluff. This is a list I aspire to, so you have my total respect.
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Thanks! I really appreciate the comment :D. I just noticed that you finished The Bell Jar the same day I did. What did you think?

Tristen Kiri wrote: "
30) Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Absolutely Delightful. (I know that is a ridiculously quaint way to describe a book but this book was ridiculously quaint..."

Totally agree with you on this description! Have you ever seen the movie? The movie is very faithful to the book and retains all of its charm.

that's a great idea planning and tracking what your reading!

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I really like your list.... You don't read a lot of fluff. This is a list I aspire to, so you have my total respect.

46) The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

Hope you enjoy them! Let me know what you think if you do end up reading them...they are certainly odd. ;-)

Thanks! I'll check them out. :D

Hi, Tristen! If you liked Middlesex and want to read more about gender identity, I've got a weird book recommendation for you. It's a biography about one of the first sex-reassignment patients who was an incredibly unusual and odd and mysterious person. He started life as 'Gordon Langley' and ended it as 'Dawn Langley Simmons' writing several books under both names and personas. S/he was one of the most intriguing people I've read about. A good biography about her is Peninsula of Lies A True Story of Mysterious Birth and Taboo Love by Edward Ball. You might try to find a copy of it if this sounds interesting to you.

Wikipedia has an entry about Dawn here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_Langle...

I can also vouch for her book She-Crab Soup which is one of my all-time humor favorites because it is SO over-the-top and weird! I've never read anything else like it.

count down to 50!

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45) Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Crazy interesting; I would love to seriously study gender identity.

44)Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

43) The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Admittedly, I'm not a big Hemingway fan (maybe a little too "macho" for me... But I'll keep trying! I already gave up on Austen :S ) but I did find some aspects of this one interesting. Namely, the titular character's musings on the nobility of his catch and his regret at having to kill it. I was kinda shocked by this admission by the famous big-game hunter Hemingway and I thinked it convinced me to read "The Sun Also Rises" (which is sitting in my bookshelf) sometime in the next couple of weeks.

Yeah, completely agree. It only took a couple of hours to read and it was so intense. I'm Jewish, so I've been trying to pick up more books about the Holocaust but it's definitely a must-read for everyone.

Tristen Kiri wrote: "
41) Night by Elie Wiesel"

That's a fantastic book

42) Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

41) Night by Elie Wiesel

40) The Awakening by Kate Chopin

39) The World According to Garp by John Irving

38) The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst

37) Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen

36) Misery by Stephen King
This was my first Stephen King book and probably a bad choice. I had already seen the brilliantly acted movie so reading it was (I hate to say this 'cause I always like the book more than the movie)kinda redundant. That being said, it wasn't necessarily a bad book; it just wasn't the type of book I personally enjoy.

35) The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst
After his wife's fatal fall from an apple tree, Paul Iverson turns to the only witness for answers and he won't give up until he gets them. One problem: the only one who can tell him whether his wife fell or jumped is her dog, Lorelei who isn't talking. Yet.
I had read a couple of negative reviews for this book so my expectations were quite low, but despite the strange premise of the book I found it absolutely lovely. Parkhurst's gradual reveal of her characters' lives before the death makes Paul's attempts to teach his dog to talk quite believable. Anyone who has ever dealt with overwhelming grief, mental heath issues, or even just loves their dog will be able to relate to this book. 4/5 stars

34) A Sudden Wild Magic by Diana Wynne Jones